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The DC-Education Working Group held its face-to-face breakout session
at DC2002 on 15 October 2002 from 16:30-18:30. The following paragraphs
briefly summarize the Working Group discussion and outline the Group's
working agenda for 2002-2003. The PowerPoint
presentation used during the breakout session is available.
Appointment of DC-Education Co-Chair Paul
Miller:
On August 8, 2002, Jon Mason of Education Network Australia resigned
as Co-Chair of the DC-Education Working Group. On 18 October 2002, the
DCMI Advisory Board approved the appointment of Paul Miller as Co-Chair. Paul is
with Interoperability
Focus, a UK national activity jointly funded by the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Resource: the Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries. Interoperability Focus is based within
UKOLN. Paul also serves with the
Metadata for
Education Group (MEG) in the UK.
Accomplishments of
2001-2002:
Last year's Working Group agenda can be divided into two parts: (1)
new domain-specific element/element refinements; and (2) vocabulary
development. The Working Group submitted a proposal to the DCMI Usage
Board for a new 'educationLevel' refinement for the 'audience' element.
The refinement was approved for the DCMI terms namespace with a status
of conforming.
Joe Tennis of the University of Washington presented preliminary
results from a pilot
study of existing 'audience' vocabularies used in select metadata
projects in education as a means for possible development of switching
languages.
2002-2003 Working Group Work
Processes:
The Working Group discussed its working process. In order to move the
agenda of the Working Group forward in a more efficient and timely
manner in 2002-2003, the Group decided to form task forces with
designated leads to address the two items on the 2002-2003 agenda. While
focusing the work around task forces, discussions will be held using the
DCMI
DC-Education list.
2002-2003 TASK FORCE: DCMI/IEEE LOM
Application Profile
Task Force Lead: Nigel Ward, Learning Federation,
Australia <nigel@thelearningfederation.edu.au> The
Application Profile Task Force will pursue completion of the agenda
outlined in the Ottawa
Communiqué to deveop a machine readable compound schema wedding both
DCMI and IEEE LTSC LOM metadata. The target is to have such a machine
readable application profile schema ready for consideration by the DCMI
Advisory Board at the 2003 annual meeting.
2002-2003 TASK FORCE: Vocabulary
Encoding Schemes Interoperability
Task Force Lead: Joe Tennis, The Information School
of the University of Washington, U.S.A. <jtennis@u.washington.edu>
The Vocabulary Encoding Schemes Task Force will continue work already
begun in exploring possible domain-specific, high-level vocabulary
encoding schemes for both the 'audience' and 'type' elements. The Task
Force will also examine the use of existing encoding schemes to make
statements regarding teaching methods and characteristics.
Report Submitted by:
Stuart A. Sutton, Co-Chair
sasutton@u.washington.edu
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